She Belongs To The Devil

In the heaven realm, the Goddess was sitting cross-legged on her comfortable bed while resting her upper half on the pillows made out of the softest feathers.

She slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes looked as if they were hiding the greatest mysteries of the universe.

"So many choices… so many possible outcomes…" The beautiful celestial heaved a sigh and got out of her bed.

She made her way towards the beautiful garden filled with a variety of flowers that were beyond human's imagination.

Out of all the flowers in the garden, the celestial lightly caressed a bunch of white daffodils. And she whispered while her eyes gazed at the clouds far in the distance, "Please choose wisely, Adeline. It's okay to be a little cruel this time… for your own sake… and for the sake of my son."

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Reginald abruptly opened his eyes when he heard some twigs cracking in the distance.

He furrowed his brows and listened carefully. It wasn't that clear but he could swear that what he was hearing was the soft rustling and running noises a little further away from where they were.

"What time is it? Are the vampires already moving out? And nobody thought that it was important to wake their King before moving ahead with the plan?" he thought to himself as he got up from the not-so-extravagant bed of his tent and slipped into a bedrobe.

He walked out of his tent and was greeted by his Royal Guards. He then asked them, "Did General Evans' team already head towards Wyverndale?"

The guard looked a little confused but replied what he knew, "No, Your Majesty. They are still here. They won't be moving until two hours later."

"There's still two hours left for the scheduled time?" Reginald looked in the direction from where he had heard the noises a while ago.

He could neither see nor hear anything out of the ordinary. He furrowed his brows even further and mumbled, "That's weird. I am sure I heard something a while ago."

Reginald narrowed his eyes and then ordered his guard in a very stern tone, "Go and find General Evans this instant. Ask him to do a perimeter search and report back to me. I feel like something is off."

The guard instantly rushed off towards Evans' tent.

Even though there was still time left before the initiation of the attack, Evans was already awake when the guard arrived there.

"Is something wrong?" Evans asked when the Royal Guard didn't even bother waiting outside and zoomed right inside his tent.

The guard gave a slight nod and said with haste, "His Majesty asked you to do a perimeter search this instant. He was saying that he heard something."

The guard narrowed his gaze and added his own weird experience, "And I don't know if this is relevant given the situation but I have been smelling something very awful since a while ago."

Evans' eyes suddenly opened wider as though he was also thinking along the same line. "Yeah, it smells like wet dogs when it's not even raining, and I hear no dogs barking."

"Could it be…" Evans didn't know if what he was thinking was even possible but he immediately ran outside his tent to gather some of the vampires for the perimeter run.

Evans gathered around 50 vampires and then asked them to go around and check for anything out of the ordinary.

And before they all left, he specifically asked them, "And watch out for the wolves. There is no forest around here so if you see any wolf wandering around then either kill it immediately or if there are too many then come back and inform me."

The vampires were confused about that particular order. However, they scattered around in every direction without asking any questions.

Though he just sent the vampires to scout the area, Evans still got this unsettling feeling inside of him.

He wrinkled his brows and thought, "Why do I feel like something bad is about to go down?" He pinched his chin and muttered, "Right! Those two soldiers haven't returned from the east yet. They should have arrived long ago… Someone got to them, didn't they? Maybe that Devil…"

Evans then went around and ordered all of the vampires to wake up and get ready.

The vampires who were sent to look around were running until they reached a certain point.

A vampire stood in front of a transparent barrier. And even when his eyes could see the sea of enemy soldiers who had already arrived there and were now lining up in the battle formation, he simply blinked and turned around as though he had been hypnotized.

Not just that vampire, all of those who went closer to that barrier looked as if they were dazed and turned around towards the camp.

"How long will the barrier hold up?" Adeline asked Izra, one of the most powerful wizards of Frostford who worked directly under King Leonel.

Izra gently patted his horse's mane and replied to the Queen who was also mounting the black horse, "As long as the vampires don't try to forcefully cross the barrier all at once, it will hold."

"Good. Let's hope that they can be fooled till our soldiers are ready. Hopefully, until the sun comes out. If we can do that then instead of dedicating the soldiers to light up the flares, they can be actually used to fight." Adeline replied with a stern look on her face.

Her eyes were fixated on the other side of the barrier, wishing that Reginald wouldn't show his face until late in the battle. "I'm not sure if I can control my anger if I see his face. I might end up going straight for him," she clenched her jaw and thought to herself, "I will have to kill a lot of vampires before I go for him."

The vampire scouts returned to their General while they were still in a dazed state. They had been hypnotized by the witches and wizards into forgetting that they ever saw the armies of Wyverndale and were made to turn around to buy them some more time.

General Evans was already pacing back and forth restlessly when he saw one of the vampires who was walking like a zombie.

He went and stood in front of that vampire and asked with a worried voice, "Hey! What's wrong? What did you see out there?"

That vampire snapped out of his daze and looked around, confused. He scratched his head trying to remember what had happened to him. But all he could remember was… nothing.

"I didn't see anything," he replied.

Evans then saw the others who were also walking with a dead look in their eyes. When he asked if they saw something or if something attacked them, all of their answers were the same, that they didn't see a thing.

However, from the way they were walking and the way they were responding, Evans was sure that something was awfully wrong around them.

And his suspicion was confirmed when Gina, the witch, came running to him and screamed in panic, "We are being surrounded by a deceptive barrier! My guess is that they have witches and wizards on their side, a lot of them!"